One person was killed in a wreck involving two vehicles that collided head-on at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday on Lascassas Pike outside of Murfreesboro, according to authorities.

The names of those involved in the accident were not released Wedneday. Crews were still on the scene as late as 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The wreck, which occurred near the intersection of Lascassas Pike and Shady Lane, resulted in one of the vehicles rolling and eventually resting on its side in a front lawn. One person was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Hospital via LifeFlight helicopter.

Sgt. Bill Miller with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Dalya Qualls with the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security both confirmed that one of the people in the wreck was killed.

“I have lived here 26 years, and there are wrecks here all the time,” said Glenn Smoot, whose home sits back from the street where the wreck occurred. “I was in the back room of the house, and I heard it and thought I heard thunder, and I said, ‘That’s not thunder. I hope it wasn’t a wreck, because if it was, it was a bad one.’”

Smoot said multiple wrecks have occurred that caused damage in his laws. His house sits near the slight rise where the crash occurred. Smoot installed a brick retainer to protect his mailbox after it was destroyed twice, but he did not have it rebuilt after it was demolished in a wreck as well.


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